From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:49:41 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Housekeeping. X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?p=chaz%2Ftar;a=commitdiff_plain;h=383701a590cdefd47bebbe6ed87c0562f5dbb011 Housekeeping. * NEWS: Mention the support for POSIX ACLs, extended attributes and SELinux context. * THANKS: List James Antill and Pavel Raiskup. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2fa8f51..749bb3b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2012-01-18 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2012-11-19 Please send GNU tar bug reports to @@ -34,6 +34,17 @@ errors. Instead it just silently skips them. An additional level of verbosity can be obtained by using the option --warning=existing-file together with this option. +* Support for POSIX ACLs, extended attributes and SELinux context. + +Starting with this version tar is able to store, extract and list +extended file attributes, POSIX.1e ACLs and SELinux context. This is +controlled by the command line options --xattrs, --acls and --selinux, +correspondingly. Each of these options has a `--no-' counterpart +(e.g. --no-xattrs), which disables the corresponding feature. +Additionally, the options --xattrs-include and --xattrs-exclude allow +you to selectively control for which files to store (or extract) the +extended attributes. + version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12 diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index f9e468d..6459157 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ Kimmy Posey kimmyd@bnr.ca Koji Kishi kis@rqa.sony.co.jp Konno Hiroharu konno@pac.co.jp Kurt Jaeger pi@lf.net +James Antill jantill@redhat.com Larry Creech lcreech@lonestar.rcclub.org Larry Schwimmer rosebud@cyclone.stanford.edu Lasse Collin lasse.collin@tukaani.org @@ -375,6 +376,7 @@ Oswald P. Backus IV backus@lks.csi.com Pascal Meheut pascal@cnam.cnam.fr Patrick Fulconis fulco@sig.uvsq.fr Patrick Timmons timmons@electech.polymtl.ca +Pavel Raiskup praiskup@redhat.com Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com Paul Kanz paul@icx.com Paul Mitchell P.Mitchell@surrey.ac.uk